Kashk (Persian: کشک‎‎, Azerbaijani: qurut, Kurdish: keşk‎, Turkish: keş peyniri), kishk (Arabic: كِشْك‎), qurt (Kazakh: құрт, Turkmen: gurt, Uzbek: qurt), qurut (Azerbaijani: qurut, Bashkir: ҡорот, Kyrgyz: курут, Turkish: kurut, surk, taş yoğurt, kurutulmuş yoğurt, Shor: қурут), chortan (Armenian: չորթան, Tatar: qort, chortan [chor, meaning "dried", plus tahn]), aaruul (Mongolian: ааруул) is a range of dairy products used in cuisines of Iranian, Armenian, Turkish, Mongolian, Central Asian, Transcaucasian, and the Levantine peoples.